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Deuteronomy 25:6
Then the first male child she has will take the rights of the brother who is dead, so that his name may not come to an end in Israel.

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Genesis 38:11
Then Judah said to Tamar, his daughter-in-law, Go back to your father's house and keep yourself as a widow till my son Shelah becomes a man: for he had in his mind the thought that death might come to him as it had come to his brothers. So Tamar went back to her father's house.

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Leviticus 18:16
You may not have sex relations with your brother's wife, for she is your brother's.

Leviticus 20:21
And if a man takes his brother's wife, it is an unclean act; he has put shame on his brother; they will have no children.

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Numbers 27:4
Why is the name of our father to be taken away from among his family, because he had no son? Give us a heritage among our father's brothers.

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Deuteronomy 21:19
Then let his father and mother take him to the responsible men of the town, to the public place;

Job 5:4
Now his children have no safe place, and they are crushed before the judges, for no one takes up their cause.

Isaiah 29:21
Who give help to a man in a wrong cause, and who put a net for the feet of him who gives decisions in the public place, taking away a man's right without cause.

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Ruth 4:7
Now, in earlier times this was the way in Israel when property was taken over by a near relation, or when there was a change of owner. To make the exchange certain one man took off his shoe and gave it to the other; and this was a witness in Israel.

Ruth 4:8
So the near relation said to Boaz, Take it for yourself. And he took off his shoe.

Ruth 4:11
And all the people who were in the public place, and the responsible men, said, We are witnesses. May the Lord make this woman, who is about to come into your house, like Rachel and Leah, which two were the builders of the house of Israel: and may you have wealth in Ephrathah, and be great in Beth-lehem;

Ruth 4:17
And the women who were her neighbours gave it a name, saying, Naomi has a child; and they gave him the name of Obed: he is the father of Jesse, the father of David.

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